Calso for dog trainers
Answers the phone while you're out with a dog on a lead.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian dog trainers. When you're running a class or a private session and can't answer, the call goes to Calso instead of voicemail. It answers questions about your classes, prices and what to bring from your own website and setup interview, takes the enquiry with the dog's details, and texts it to you straight away.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · You keep your number
The calls dog trainers miss
- You're in a park running a class, with a lead in one hand and treats in the other.
- New puppy owners ring with lots of questions: when puppy school starts, what age, how much, what to bring.
- Owners with a dog that's reactive or pulling tend to ring when they're fed up, often in the evening.
A missed call to your business
Calso answeredThe text you get
Puppy school enquiry: Emma, 0491 573 770. Biscuit, kelpie cross, 12 weeks. Wants the next start date.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Answers questions about your classes, ages, prices, locations and what to bring, from your website and setup interview.
- Takes enquiries and booking requests with the dog's name, breed, age and what the owner wants help with.
- Texts you each one straight away.
- Says it's an AI assistant if anyone asks. It never pretends to be a person.
What it won't do
- It doesn't give training or behaviour advice over the phone. That conversation is yours.
- It doesn't connect to booking software, so it doesn't confirm a place in a class. You do.
- It doesn't record calls, and it never guesses: what it doesn't know becomes a message for you.
How your business gets set up
- 01
Calso reads what you've published
Sign up with your business name. Calso reads your website and Google listing for your hours, services, prices and policies.
- 02
A short setup interview
Typed, or by voice if you'd rather. It covers what your website doesn't say, and how you want messages and requests taken.
- 03
Forward the calls you miss
You get your Calso number and choose a plan. Then set your phone to forward the calls you don't answer. Customers keep ringing your usual number.
Setup usually takes under 15 minutes, because Calso reads your website and Google listing first. Nothing is charged until you choose a plan. To undo it, turn call forwarding off.
From the Calso Directory
Dog trainers in the Calso Directory
832
dog trainers listed, in 31 cities and towns
116 hrs
a week the typical one is closed, against about 53 open (89% list their hours)
54%
of 223 Google visits to pages in the Pets & animals group came while the business was closed
The visit figure counts Google visits to business pages in the Calso Directory from Saturday 24 to Monday 26 October 2026, set against each business's listed hours in its own state's time. There were too few visits to dog trainers' pages alone to quote, so it is the figure for the wider Pets & animals group. It was a weekend-heavy sample, so read it as a sign of when people look businesses up, not a rule for every week. Each of those visits was someone who might have called.
Where they're listed most: Melbourne (192), Sydney (147), Brisbane (82), Perth (77), Adelaide (57), Gold Coast (46). Listings and hours as published in the directory, October 2026.
Your directory listing needs no account. Calso, the phone answerer, is a separate paid service.
Which plan suits your business
Starter is sized for about 100 answered calls a month, roughly three a day. Start there if the phone only rings out when you're out training. Go over and calls are still answered, with nothing cut off or charged extra, and you can move to Pro, sized for about 500, any time.
Starter
Suggested for dog trainers$99 a month
Sized for about 100 answered calls a month.
Pro
$199 a month
or $1,980 a year ($165 a month)
Sized for about 500 answered calls a month.
Both plans are the same Calso. Go over and calls are still answered, with nothing cut off and nothing charged extra, and you can move to Pro any time. 30-day money back from your first payment. No lock-in, cancel any time.
Questions dog trainers ask
No. It takes the details (the dog, the problem and what the owner is after) and texts you, so you can talk to them properly.
Yes, if they're on your website or you give them to Calso in the setup interview.
It takes the request and texts it to you. It doesn't connect to booking software, so you confirm the place.
If they ask, yes. Calso says it's an AI assistant and never pretends to be you.
More answers on the FAQ page.
Calso for other businesses
Stop sending your business's callers to voicemail.
Set it up on your own number, usually in under 15 minutes. Start with only the calls you already miss.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · Cancel any time